officially started my MA project
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Adrienne Raphel on Klaus Teuber, a former dental technician who went on to create the popular board game The Settlers of Catan: http://nyr.kr/MfxLL3
“Die Siedler von Catan was an instant success in Germany and won the 1995 Spiel des Jahres. At the time, Spiel des Jahres winners had been...
This is just a personal preference, but I wish that when people talked about board games (and when creators write instructions) they would respect the conceits of the game. Don't call them "ore hexes." Call them "mines." Calling them "ore hexes" draws too much attention to the fact that you're playing a board game.
Source: newyorker.com
a Valentine from Züri to you
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laura warman and joe hogle read poems together in a pittsburgh basement, february 2014.
:) much luv to tha HOGLER
For non-German speakers, this is a moving story about the humiliation of growing up the child of immigrants in Switzerland. This video was part of Christopher Kriese's Bachelor Project at the ZHdK, the text is from ZHdK-Professor Sabine Harbeke.
food over semester break part 4: vegetarian lentil sloppy joes with two kids of pickles from brooklyn brine on kaiser rolls with arugula&fennel&onion&pear salad, frozen berries drizzled with hot coconut-flavoured chocolate, grape tomato chunky sauce, orange-chocolate and sesame-ginger cookies, spaghetti squash with basil pesto & chunky sauce and salad with baby kale, brocolli sprouts & pomegranate seeds
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Dear Mom,
Why do I hate crying in front of you? I find it inexplicably embarassing. We are both cryers in movies, and we both know it, but two nights ago while watching Fruitvale Station with you and Dad, I was relieved to be sitting in front of you at the end of the movie. Because then you...
hiking in wallis last weekend with my flatmate
I asked Sarah Black what she thinks about selfies and she said
"...they're a natural extension of a millions-year-old impulse toward self-portraiture and people criticize them mostly because they're associated with teenage girls and culturally that's a favorite reason to disregard something. I don't think they're any more conceited than everything else people use to build their little online self-image shrines; everything is a selfie. But I think they've been good for people, especially young women, who don't feel supported by/don't see their own image in the cultural landscape to connect and encourage each other. And I hope they change the trend of adult women avoiding being in photos after their mid-twenties--there are pretty much zero photos of my mother after age thirty--because they have such low self-image and it's just kind of accepted that that's a legitimate reason to strike themselves from the family record. There's something kind of subversive in refusing to do that."
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For more than 30 years Cyndi Lauper has been a creative force, as a singer, songwriter, author and now composer of the music and lyrics for a hit Broadway play. In an interview that originally aired in May, Brooke talked to Cyndi Lauper before a live audience in NYC about her life, her art and where she draws her inspiration. Watch Brooke's entire hour-long conversation with Cyndi Lauper below. Cyndi Lauper - She Bop
This is wonderful. Another good thing about radio: teary eyes don't impede listening.
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Episode 2: Alphorn The Swiss government talks a lot about taking responsibility for the country’s carbon emissions, but Swiss people have one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change attributes carbon emissions from production and transport to the producing country, leaving China and other exporting countries responsible for Switzerland’s fumes.